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January 25, 2010 2:42 PM
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China Questions Warming Cause While Backing IPCC
by Pallava Bagla and Eli KintischAs outsiders continue to heap criticism on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, China has to introduce new doubt on the scientific consensus regarding the...
January 21, 2010 10:19 PM
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Clinton Lays Down Gauntlet on Internet Freedom
BEIJING—In a speech yesterday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a hard-hitting speech in defense of a free and unfettered Internet. The...
January 21, 2010 8:14 AM
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U.N. Climate Change Chief Takes IPCC to Task
NEW DELHI--Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expressed "regret" for having erred when it stated in a 2007 global review that Himalayan glaciers were "very likely" to melt...
January 21, 2010 8:12 AM
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Elite University Jump-Starts Its Earth Science Revival
BEIJING—China’s stance at the Copenhagen climate summit last month riled many critics, but the country is earning praise on the research front. In the latest sign of the government’s...
Slain Iranian Physicist's Campus Talk Suggests Strong Reformist Ties
Who killed Masoud Alimohammadi, the Iranian physicist who was blown up outside his apartment in Teheran on 12 January by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb? Emerging details of the professor's...
New Science "Indicators" Data From NSF Captures China's Rise
China is a scientific rocket, and the global research community is climbing aboard. Every 2 years the National Science Foundation releases a wealth of data on the state of...
January 15, 2010 11:34 AM
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H5N1 Forgotten (Almost), But Not Gone
While the world's flu fighters have concentrated on countering the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, avian influenza H5N1 has quietly continued to take its toll on both poultry and humans....
December 28, 2009 4:20 PM
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Japan's Science Budget Not as Bad as Feared
Japan's researchers let loose a sigh of relief on 25 December when the new administration's first budget revealed only minor changes in science and technology priorities. Overall spending on...
December 21, 2009 4:41 PM
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Dealings of Top Climate Scientist in the Spotlight
NEW DELHI—In a news report on 20 December, The Telegraph levels some serious accusations against Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The British daily...
December 14, 2009 10:51 AM
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Working 9 to 5: Australian Scientists Strike Again
Dissatisfied after a showdown last week, scientists at the Australian Synchrotron have returned to working on a 9-to-5 schedule rather than round the clock, a partial strike that could...
December 10, 2009 12:21 PM
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Most of Australian Synchrotron Advisory Board Resigns
Yesterday a showdown at the Australian Synchrotron failed to resolve tensions between the warring factions. Synchrotron staff members and the facility's international scientific advisory committee (SAC) demanded an explanation for...
December 8, 2009 5:50 PM
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Developing Countries React in Outrage to "Danish Text"
The Guardian reported this morning on leaked negotiating text. According to a "confidential analysis of the text by developing countries also seen by The Guardian," the text would: • Force...
Australian Synchrotron Update: Fired Director Speaks Out (Update added)
Either today or tomorrow, depending on your time-zone, there's a showdown at the Australian Synchrotron from which Director Robert Lamb was recently fired. On Friday 4 December, Lamb broke...
December 3, 2009 10:18 AM
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Conservationists in South Korea Rejoice and Weep
It has been a good news-bad news autumn for Korean conservationists. The good news: Yesterday, the government of the Republic of Korea (the South) officially came out in favor...
Sparring Intensifies Over Japan's Science Budget
TOKYO—The struggle for public and political support between Japan's scientific community and a budget-cutting task force is escalating. Last week, the Government Revitalization Unit concluded its scheduled 9-day-long hearings,...
November 24, 2009 1:18 PM
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India and U.S. Ink "Green Partnership"
On first glance, today's deal lacks the big dollars, such as a joint $150 million energy research effort, that the recent United States–China deal included. But it's a full...
November 23, 2009 11:34 AM
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Elephants 1, Astrophysicists 0 in Scuffle over Indian Observatory
NEW DELHI—In a setback for astrophysicists, the Indian government, citing environmental concerns, has ruled out construction of the proposed Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) at its preferred location near the Mudumalai...
China-U.S. Science Agreement Signals Dawn of a New Era
The $150 million Clean Energy Research Center that the two superpowers agreed to fund this week represents no less than a revolution in the way the two countries think...
Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts
TOKYO—Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts in the...
November 17, 2009 5:47 PM
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Can Obama Bring a Number in Copenhagen—and Will It Matter?
On 18 December, the last day of the Copenhagen climate meeting, what will President Barack Obama tell the world that the United States is prepared to do? With a...
NASA's Bolden Discovers Bento Satellites in Japan
TOKYO—Manned space exploration "is in our DNA," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said during a town hall meeting here today at the University of Tokyo (Todai). The former astronaut said...
November 12, 2009 11:20 AM
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In Asia, A Debate Over Making Cancer a Global Health Priority
Not surprisingly, cancer researchers in Asia think their specialty deserves to be a higher global health priority. Today at an Asia Cancer Forum discussion in Tsukuba, Japan, one speaker...
October 19, 2009 2:02 PM
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Plaintiffs in Jared Diamond Defamation Case File New Papers
Last week, attorneys for biologist and author Jared Diamond and Advance Publication Inc., publisher of The New Yorker, filed papers in New York state court in response to a...
October 19, 2009 11:06 AM
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Australian Women Cool to Career in Science
CANBERRA—Just days after Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, became the first Australia-born woman to win a Nobel Prize, for work on telomeres, a report released...
Ultimate Sacrifice at Indian Lab?
Lighting up the Internet in India are bizarre allegations that a researcher at the country's premier defense lab was attacked with an ax in a bungled attempt at human sacrifice....
Renewable Energy Research in Focus in New Japanese Budget
As expected, Japan's new government announced yesterday it is ordering ministries to rethink the 2010 budget requests they submitted on 28 August—a process that could have an impact on...
September 24, 2009 12:18 AM
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Massive AIDS Vaccine Study a "Modest" Success
A large clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine has, for the first time, yielded positive results. But researchers immediately questioned the relevance of the data, which indicated that the...
Korea Research Chief Espouses "Free to Fail" Culture
Earlier this summer, South Korea merged three science agencies to form the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The new body will control a $2 billion pot of money,...
Indian Moon Mission "Terminated"
NEW DELHI—India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, has come to a shuddering and unexpected halt. On 29 August, the Indian Space Research Organization lost all contact with the spacecraft after a...
Japan's Education Ministry Aims High With Budget Request
TOKYO—The Ministry of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year has some welcome news for research, including a new teaching assistant program to employ graduate students, dramatically expanded funding...
August 21, 2009 11:11 AM
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Japan streamlines embryonic stem cell reviews
TOKYO—Research involving human embryonic stem (ES) cells will become easier in Japan as a result of new ethical review requirements that take effect today....
July 23, 2009 8:25 AM
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New Lease on Life for Australian Stem Cell Centre
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—The Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) hopes that a new business plan will help it regain momentum in the last 2 years of its term. The plan, announced today,...
July 15, 2009 5:16 AM
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China Cracks Down on Dubious Internet Addiction Therapy
BEIJING—The Chinese government has banned the controversial application of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for so-called Internet addiction. Although there is no meeting of the minds on whether Internet addiction is a...
July 7, 2009 11:08 AM
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Bucking Downturn, India Hands Science a Hefty Increase
NEW DELHI—Joining a global trend, India is giving science a boost in the face of the worldwide economic downturn. On 6 July, the newly elected government headed by Prime Minister...
July 7, 2009 5:12 AM
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China Sets Huge R&D Budget Boost
BEIJING—The United States and Japan are not the only countries hoping that a massive windfall for science will help rescue their economies. In response to the global financial crisis, China...
July 6, 2009 10:50 AM
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Inside China's Swine Flu Quarantine System
BEIJING—China has perhaps the strictest quarantine procedures in the world to limit the spread of the Influenza A H1N1 virus—as I found out firsthand today.I’m the Asia editor for Science....
Macau Prevails in One-Country, Two-System Dilemma
Macau scholars are breathing a big sigh of relief: On 27 June, China’s National People’s Congress passed a law that gives Macau jurisdiction over the University of Macau’s (UM’s) proposed...
June 15, 2009 11:32 AM
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U.S.-Based Chinese Scientists Ponder Their Influence at Home and Abroad
TAIPEI—With sessions ranging from aquaculture to structural biology and from neuroscience to entrepreneurship, the 12th International Symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) that kicked off here...
June 4, 2009 12:29 PM
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China Shutters Science Blogs for Tiananmen Anniversary
In response to the 20th anniversary today of the crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, government censors have blocked access to many international Web sites and caused temporary closures...
June 1, 2009 7:58 AM
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Indian Scientists Welcome Triumvirate of Science Leaders
India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh, elected to a second 5-year term, has named leaders with deep technical expertise to his cabinet. The new science minister is Prithviraj Chavan, 63, a...
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